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Overdrive Extra
Never hire someone you canât fire, and other lessons in expansion
"It looks great on paper: Add a truck or trucks, grow a small fleet business," says Gary Buchs in this commentary on driver hiring. Learn before you start.
September 28, 2020
Business
No. 1 expansion challenge: 6 in 10 readers say itâs finding dependable drivers
For all the differences between a mega-fleet and an expanding one-truck owner-operator, both share a common problem: difficulties finding and keeping dependable drivers.
March 7, 2019
Business
The expansion challenge: Getting started with solid freight relationships
While most owner-operators have considered adding a truck to their business, many never try it, and few have sustained success for years. The challenges are many, but the rewards can be substantial for the right operators with a close eye on new opportunities.
March 4, 2019
Voices
POLL: Have you considered â or followed through on â moving beyond a single truck?
For many owner-operators, the possibility of expansion beyond one truck is a common goal â have you ever considered building beyond the one truck, or actually followed through on such a plan?
February 4, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Local/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more
This weekâs Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his home base, and a newly built six-bay shop. Balancing the volume/cost tradeoffs is one of the many calculations the ownerâs learned to make over his years in business.
February 1, 2019
Voices
POLL: What is the most difficult aspect of growing beyond a single truck as an owner-op?
Small fleet owners and those in the midst of an expansion plan beyond a single truck: Which of these areas â finding dependable drivers, dealing with more maintenance, equipment investment, insurance, administrative burdens and more â has proved the most difficult for you in growing the operation?
January 21, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Growing pains of small trucking: Midnight Xpress on blown motors, hiring mistakes and more
In the half-year since we first talked with Midnight Xpress co-owner Andre Jackson for the Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet expansion plans continue to be implemented, though theyâve shifted with a breakdown of the first truck Jackson and partners added, among other issues â including hiring mistakes made.
January 18, 2019
Overdrive Radio
The âAmazon effectâ and opportunities for small fleets, owner-ops who can cash in
Part 1 of this edition of Overdrive Radio podcast delves into the opportunities and dilemmas small carriers, owner-operators, and brokers currently face.
May 25, 2018
Business
Eleventy-million and counting
Herein, a story about driv⌠I mean, apples. âAnd people wondered why other people, who werenât buying near as many apples, were making pies and cider and delicious things from their apples, and didnât have piles of stinking, rotting apples laying around their terminals ⌠I mean, their kitchens.ââŚ
September 20, 2017
Channel 19
Driver shortage alarm, redux part 2: Bills in Ohio would subsidize âcheap laborâ
Ohio bills would funnel taxpayer money to driver-training efforts and âput the Ohio taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing cheap labor,â notes small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold. Also, video, audio: Crank it up with Scott Reedâs tuned 750-hp Cat in the Wheeling tunnel on I-70.
April 20, 2017
Voices
POLL: Your first contact with your current leasing/employing carrier?
Leased/company drivers, where did your first awareness/contact of the company youâre leased to or work for today come? Were you referred by a friend or a fellow driver with the company, catch an online advertisement that spurred further action, or something else?
February 14, 2017
Business
Averitt Express recognized for hiring military veterans
Averitt says more than 20 percent of its current employees have served in the military, and the company has also pledged to hire 1,200 more veterans by 2020.
January 16, 2017
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